4/19/20

Mack – FWIW – Coronavirus Edition - Daily Thoughts 4-19


Good morning.



First, we want to welcome ex-Mets Oscar Rojas and  Aneury Uceta to our family of Mack’s Mets readers.



JJ Cooper - @jjcoop36

There are many, many hurdles that have to be overcome before their can be a 2020 MiLB season. And if there isn't one, the 2021 season will be more difficult financially for MiLB teams as well.


Bob Nightengale - @BNightengale

Union chief Tony Clark still optimistic #MLB will play games this year some way, in some fashion, even if there are no fans.


Teddy Cahill - @tedcahill

Returning seniors aren't the only source of roster pressure for college baseball in 2021. A significantly shortened draft is expected to lead to a larger than normal freshmen class.



          Mets: David Wright

Selected 38th overall out of the Virginia prep ranks in the 2001 Draft, Wright cracked Baseball America’s Top 100 list for the first time in 2003 (No. 75) and entered MLB.com's Top 50 list at No. 29 in ’14. Though he would make his big league debut at the midseason mark that year and quickly become the face of the franchise, ultimately earning seven All-Star selections, a pair of Silver Slugger Awards and two Gold Gloves during his 14-year Mets tenure, a chronic back injury limited Wright to 77 games from 2015-18.


What I am hearing is that the Mets are not going after any of the big bonus babies in the next International draft. The word is that they will be spreading what money they spend to under 100K bonuses.

I also called a couple of my insiders after watching the President lay out the recovery plan he has worked out with the Governors. They both feel that we will see MAJOR league baseball, starting around June 1st. They also believe it will start off with an empty stadium, but could be expanded to a limited amount of fan participation. How that will work out with teams that have sold out certain games is your guess.

The three of us agree that minor league baseball could mirror this, so, for now, let’s look at a projection of about 100 major league games and all minor league teams, including the short season ones, starting in June and ending at the end of mid-September.


Deesha - @DeeshaThosar

Did I wake up at 7 a.m. to watch Fubon bat around the order and score sevens runs in the top of the fifth inning off the Rakuten Monkeys with cardboard fans in the stands and cheerleaders dancing on the dugout in Taiwan?

Yes. Yes, I did.


Advocates for Minor Leaguers - @MiLBAdvocates

MLB players will receive service time for the year whether or not there is a season. Minor Leaguers need the same guarantee. Otherwise, players like this one- a year short of MiLB Free Agency (7 years)- will be forced to quit.


5 comments:

Raw said...

Do you think there will be College baseball this summer? Most leagues have not cancelled and expect to start on time, which in some leagues is the end of May. Therefore college baseball players I assume would be in camp by mid May.

Can some leagues play while others are cancelled! Some leagues may be in parts of the country where we have opened up and have little restrictions. If American people can protest in front of state capitals I am sure these same people can fill up ballparks in that part of the country.

Reese Kaplan said...

Americans can go to church and other large gatherings, oblivious to the dangers and then suffer the consequences. That is how I feel about the protesters at state government offices on the GOP payroll to support the plans to reopen the country long before it's suitable to do so.

Mack Ade said...

Raw

Nothing is etched in stone yet.

Mack Ade said...

Reese -

And the idiots on the Florida beaches.

TexasGusCC said...

What Churches are open Reese so that I may attend? Not only are they closed, cops put nails in front of their parking lot entrances so they couldn’t even park there on Easter to listen to the liturgy over a loud speaker. All while the essential parking lots are open for Office Depot, Lowe’s and Home Depot, and even the extremely essential Starbucks.

Whether these people are paid by the GOP or not, I don’t know, but they have mouths to feed and it would be nice to understand that. As someone who hasn’t qualified for unemployment, got nothing on the PPP and is still calling unemployment close to 40X a day to busy signals, it bothers me to read your words. I agree the beaches have no business being open and surely no one should open their states if they aren’t safe to do so, but as the Kansas Attorney General put it towards her Governor who said people can’t go to Church, “the Bill of Rights cannot be quarantined.”